[Sidefx-houdini-list] Re: convert to NURBS

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 > So? What did you do?
 >

1./ divide sop - remove shared edges - to get outside boundary.
2./ isolate 2 side boundaries somehow. I deleted using:  if($MAPV==0 || 
$MAPV==1)
3./ primitive sop - Face/Hull open U
4./ resample sop - using maximum segements to achieve matching point 
count on each side.
5./ polypatch to give me a mesh with nice subdivs
6./ convert to nurbs surface to get 1 nice nurbs surface.
7./ ray onto original poly surface

This is easy enough - but I'll be doing this for every object that comes 
out of DOPs - so it's still not ideal. My production poly was created by 
Triangulate2D for a cloth simulation. (It wasn't the one I sent to the 
list.) It had straight ends, so I didn't have to worry about using rails 
or V cross sections in skin or something to create my mesh.

Cheers

> 
> Andrew D Lyons wrote:
> 
>> Thanks to all,
>>
>> I've now solved this problem - for this type of case anyway.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>>
>>
>> Andrew D Lyons wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks Jim and Peter,
>>>
>>> I actually tried this yesterday. This was the technique that I 
>>> referred to as working reasonably well for the simplified case I sent 
>>> to the list - but which tanked on my production model. I'll revisit 
>>> it if necessary though.
>>>
>>> I'm looking at Antoines technique with great interest. There's some 
>>> serious old-school trickery in there. Thanks for the knowledge 
>>> sharing Antoine. Hopefully I can find ways to answer those questions 
>>> as I go.
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Peter Robbinson wrote:
>>>
>>>> Jim Rutherford wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> A real low tech approach would be to divide sop and remove the 
>>>>> shared edges.
>>>>> convert that to a nurb surface
>>>>> refine it a whole bunch
>>>>> offset it down below the original geometry and scale its Y to 0
>>>>> Ray sop that back up to the original (i'd divide the original up too)
>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>>> With this method, if you turn on "interpolate through hulls" in the 
>>>> convert sop you don't have to res up the geometry.
>>>> In the ray sop I used "minimum distance" and turned on "transform 
>>>> points" .
>>>>
>>>> hmmm, it's not a rational surface however...How do I change that?
>>>>
>>>> PeterR
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